by Dan Kempner | Jul 28, 2019 | Features, Scars
Dan Kempner Columnist Some people peak early. I was one such. My glory years were in middle school. We’d moved back to a small town in Westchester County, New York, and I was a little taller, with a bit more of a well-knit, man-like frame compared to the other young...
by Dan Kempner | May 28, 2019 | Features, Our Father's Legacy
Dan Kempner Columnist Come this fall, I will have been dead for twenty years. That’s a long time and it gives a man room to think. Father Scattered here, in this slow-bending creek, and mixed here and there with the powdered bones of my second wife, I’ve pondered a...
by Dan Kempner | Apr 26, 2019 | Features
Dan Kempner Columnist He was perhaps 30 years old, lean and muscular. Over six feet, tall for a Vietnamese, his long, direct strides took him quickly from the outdoor shower to the deep end of the pool. I was resting at the far end and naturally, he dove into my lane....
by Dan Kempner | Mar 31, 2019 | Features, Legacy Lampoon
Men, after ten years in this organization, this is my swan song. It’s over. I’m finished, out — donesville. This probably won’t even get into print – Ellis has no balls. Go ahead, Jim, I dare you to run it! And as for the publisher, LaBarge, where do I start?...
by Dan Kempner | Feb 24, 2019 | Causing Greatness, Features
Dan Kempner Columnist My dad taught himself to play the guitar so he would have something with which to sing along. He created a four-finger piano style just so he could write songs using a special musical notation invented, for him, by my mom … a notation that...
